In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

By Michael Pollan

From the author of the bestselling "The Omnivore's Dilemma" comes this bracing and eloquent manifesto that shows readers how they might start making thoughtful food choices that can enrich their lives and enlarge their sense of what it means to be healthy. (Consumer Health)

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Publisher: Penguin Books
Publish Date: 04/28/2009
Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780143114963
ISBN-10: 0143114964
Language: English

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February 07, 2008

An Eater's Manifesto

By Michael Pollan

This is an eater's manifesto, an invitation to join the movement that is renovating our food system in the name of health—health in the very broadest sense of that word. READ FULL DESCRIPTION

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#1 New York Times Bestseller from the author of How to Change Your Mind, The Omnivore's Dilemma, and Food Rules Food. There's plenty of it around, and we all love to eat it. So why should anyone need to defend it? Because in the so-called Western diet, food has been replaced by nutrients, and common sense by confusion--most of what we're consuming today is longer the product of nature but of food science. The result is what Michael Pollan calls the American Paradox: The more we worry about nutrition, the less healthy we see to become. With In Defense of Food, Pollan proposes a new (and very old) answer to the question of what we should eat that comes down to seven simple but liberating words: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. Pollan's bracing and eloquent manifesto shows us how we can start making thoughtful food choices that will enrich our lives, enlarge our sense of what it means to be healthy, and bring pleasure back to eating.

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Michael Pollan is the author of seven previous books, including Cooked , Food Rules , In Defense of Food , The Omnivore's Dilemma and The Botany of Desire , all of which were New York Times bestsellers.

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